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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3955 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3955

   To require the heads of Federal agencies to submit to Congress an 
annual report regarding official time authorized under title 5, United 
                  States Code, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2024

   Ms. Ernst introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
   To require the heads of Federal agencies to submit to Congress an 
annual report regarding official time authorized under title 5, United 
                  States Code, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Taxpayer-Funded Union Time 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. OFFICIAL TIME.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Agency; employee; labor organization.--The terms 
        ``agency'', ``employee'', and ``labor organization'' have the 
        meanings given those terms in section 7103 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Section 7131.--The term ``section 7131'' means section 
        7131 of title 5, United States Code.
    (b) Annual Report.--Not later than June 30 of each year that begins 
after the year in which this Act is enacted, the head of each agency 
shall submit to Congress, and post on the public website of the agency, 
a report that details the following for the year covered by the report:
            (1) The cost to the agency of official time authorized 
        under section 7131.
            (2) A detailed explanation of the purpose for which the 
        agency made each authorization of official time under section 
        7131.
            (3) With respect to each employee of the agency for whom 
        official time was authorized under section 7131--
                    (A) the position and annual rate of basic pay of 
                the employee;
                    (B) the total number of hours the employee spent on 
                activities for which the official time was authorized; 
                and
                    (C) the percentage that the number of hours 
                described in subparagraph (B) represented with respect 
                to the total number of hours worked by the employee for 
                the applicable year.
            (4) The number of hours for which the agency permitted 
        labor organizations, or employees of the agency for whom 
        official time was authorized under section 7311, to use agency 
        property at no cost or at a discounted rate.
            (5) The total monetary value of the uses described in 
        paragraph (4).
            (6) The amount of any reimbursement collected by the agency 
        with respect to a use described in paragraph (4).
            (7) Any expenses paid by the agency for activities 
        conducted by a labor organization or a private individual with 
        respect to official time authorized by the agency under section 
        7131.
            (8) An explanation of any increase, as compared to the 
        report submitted in the previous year, in the amount of 
        official time authorized by the agency under section 7131.
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